Its little sibling, the Atari 400, shipped with less RAM and a flat membrane keyboard for $550. Check out our complete teardown of the Atari 800 for more. Atari 1200 XL (1982 ... The ABC 386 PCs were the only Atari computers to ship with Microsoft …

Benj Edwards •
PC World •
8 years ago

http://www.pcworld.com/article/225776/history_atari_computers.html

The History of Atari Computers

For 15 years (1978 to 1993), Atari designed and produced four distinct lines of PCs: the 8-bit "Atari 800" line, the 16-bit ST line ... Meanwhile, he replaced the 8-bit XL series with two new models: the 65XE, with 64KB of RAM, and the 130 XE, with ...

Steve Goss's first video game work that SPOnG is aware of is the 1989 title, "Contagion" (Atari 400/800/XL/XE) as Game Design ... (PlayStation), "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" (Dreamcast), "Black and White 2" (PC), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return ...

spong.com •
19 years ago

http://spong.com/people/1343/Steve-Goss

Report slams Enbridge Energy's history of oil spills

A National Wildlife Federation report released today criticizes Enbridge Energy’s plans to expand its pipeline capacity in Michigan and elsewhere in North America in light of the company’s more than 800 oil spills between 1999 and 2010. The release of ...

(Bose introduced the first ANR headset in 1989 ... features black domes and gold-plated hardware. Our test set weighed in at about 16 ounces, including the cord and gel ear seals. In the cockpit, we liked the S-58's noticeably light overall weight ...

The principal, Gulcin Dogan, a 26-year-old Turk with long light ... lack the black markets found in camps around the world, where donated supplies are stolen and sold back to refugees. This has been widely reported as a plague at the Za’atari camp ...

Pong was one of the first games created by Nolan Bushnell’s newly created Atari Corporation in 1972. The game was a simple two-player ping-pong game in which each side used a paddle to pass a ball back and forth. The black ... get cage, lamp on, xyzzy.

That, and a desire to cut ownership expenditures, is why the U.S. military is exploring other options in light tactical wheeled vehicles ... Blackwood luxury pickup truck. A single color (black), no 4WD option, and a "bed" barely big enough to hold ...

Since 1989, Sega has more than quadrupled in size from more than US$800 million in annual sales to an estimated ... While the folks over at Nintendo, 3DO, and Atari know that, Sega has been building its business on it for the past three years.

Wired News •
26 years ago

http://www.wired.com/1993/06/sega/

It's Time to Say Goodbye to Atari, Once and for All

After lawsuits and other drama, the remaining parts of Atari Games were picked up by Warner Communications again in 1989, and got sucked into ... iterated on the Atari 400 and 800 computer line (and the subsequent XL-dubbed reskins) with the XE series ...